Korean Central Television, is a state television station from the DPRK or more commonly known as North Korea.
KCTV broadcasts news reports, shows on education, culture, economic affairs, cartoons and various other content.
KCTV broadcasts from 17:00 to 22:30 local time Monday through Saturday and 9:00 to
22:30 on Sundays, broadcast times mirror Sundays on key national holidays.
KCTV broadcasts on VHF Channel 12 with 700 KW's of power in the capital Pyongyang but also has various transmitters in other parts of the country.
Television broadcasting in the DPRK began on March 3rd 1963, and colour using the PAL system was introduced in April of 1974.
KCTV can be watched internationally on Thaicom 5 at 78.5°E satellite, broadcasting on satellite began in October of 1999.
The Video
First of we see KCTV's unique test card which seems to have many characteristics of the PM5544 which is used all round the world.
Before the start of the normal day the Voice of Korea interval signal is played with the test pattern, to hear the interval signal click play below.
Then into the video itself, it starts with a beautiful zooming in shot of I think is Baekdu Mountain and The National Anthem is playing.
Then a panning shot of Heaven Lake on the Chinese North Korean border, Heaven Lake a lake formed by the volcanic Baekdu Mountain.
Then the Flag of the DPRK is placed over the video.
Video then turns into the flag totally and notice the flag is flying right-to-left.
Then the Chollima Statue appears, the Chollima is a mythical flying horse similar to Pegasus and this statue stands for the heroism and invincible fighting spirit of the Korean people it is located in Pyongyang.
Then what I think translated to Korean Central Television is written in Korean characters.
Finally a staff announcer welcomes us to the new broadcast day.
Sorry for the poor sound quality of the audio, this was out of my control.
Hope you all enjoy...
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Korean Central TV (DPRK)
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Many thanks for that. It's a stirring anthem, in my view, whatever one may think about the PDRK régime.
ReplyDeleteYes, I did notice the flag flying from right to left -- with the horse then moving left to right: it wouldn't be good symbolism, I'm sure, for it to appear to be fleeing from the wind rather than boldly galloping into it...
The closing text is indeed the name of the station in Korean:
한국
Korea
중앙
central
텔레비전
television
Thanks Kevin for the comments.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate them.
it should be 조선중앙텔레비죤
ReplyDeleteCHOSEON CHUNG'ANG TAELLAEBIJION
CHOSEON is the North Korean way to say KOREA
HANGUK한국 is the way they call the country in the South
한국 - Seems to be United States on Google Translate or am I reading you wrong?
ReplyDeleteDoes United States mean United Korea?
Cheers
Regarding the flag flying "backwards" - ie right to left. What is interesting is that during the playing of the national anthem at the close of Korean Central TV the flag flies the "correct way" - ie left to right.
ReplyDeleteI made a MPEG2 transport stream recording of the last hour of the broadcast day including the late night news and then close of this station @ 22:30 Pyongyang time last night. The close is quite interesting and includes a full five minute rundown of the following day's programs. I will send Remlap a copy of the file, maybe he will feature the close on the blog in the future.
Please do mate, my email is up in the corner.
ReplyDeleteI havent been able to tune in the 10e AP feed for a few days due to signal level problems, no idea why though, I assume its them.
RL, This is my first comment in your blog!
ReplyDeleteI travel yesterday and in hotel have satellite so I can watch this channel and I have to check out from hotel before the startup! But i've seen closedown last night and it turns to colorbars. not this testcard. Is this testcard broadcast only last hour of off-air time? Or they changed test card?
PS:I really want the answer.
I assume it broadcasts prior to start up, I have seen it multiple times before their local start up.
ReplyDeleteAnd its not your first comment, I recognise the name
Enjoy your trip and the channels you can get.
Hey, I'm creating a screensaver of the DPRK testcard, it should (does) display the time local to your computer... Does anyone have a high quality image/film of the testcard? If not, I will resign my efforts to the 600px one I have at the moment. I am also trying to create vector (SVG) of a frame, but this is difficult due to the original image's quality. (The SVG is the last resort, because I like the seconds pulse of the KCTV testcard.) Cheers.
ReplyDeleteHi, can you email me at remlap@tvclosedownblog.com and I'll get you a recording.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Patrick